Tribal peoples for tomorrow’s world, a groundbreaking new book by Stephen Corry
By Nellie Werner The treatment of indigenous and tribal peoples, the world’s largest minority, is a major humanitarian issue. It shapes world history and raises profound questions about what it really means to be human. Tribal peoples for tomorrow’s world explains who these peoples are, how they live, why governments hate them and why their disappearance is nevertheless far from inevitable.
It looks at many aspects of tribal peoples’ lives, including their attitudes to sex, religion, and money. Concepts such as ‘culture’ and ‘the noble savage’ are examined, as well as the impact of big business, globalization, backpackers and the internet.
Easily accessible, the book is a distillation of Survival International Director Stephen Corry’s 40 years’ work with and for tribal peoples. It argues passionately, and controversially, that hunting and nomadism are neither backward nor primitive, but intelligent and conscious choices – and that upholding the law and understanding racist prejudice solves most tribal peoples’ problems. It shines a light on the ground-breaking, but entirely unrecognized, contributions they have already made to the world, and exposes the inconvenient truth that their survival is in everyone’s interest.
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